Aditya Naganath
@anaganath
Principal @kleinerperkins. Prev - Product: @Google Software:@PalantirTech, @twitter, @kp_fellows ('14) School: @StanfordGSB @columbia
Reliability is the name of the game for agents, and it's unlikely to be solved purely at the model layer for the foreseeable future. This is creating green shoots for infrastructure builders, with a few interesting trends starting to emerge: 1. Simulation as CI for agents: a)…
Two decades ago @ParisHeymann and I used to compete against each other in the US chess circuit. We were both top 7 in the country. Now we’re finally running it back ♟️
I remember at @Columbia engineering career fairs, the best companies in hindsight who would recruit from campuses (Pure Storage, Palantir, Dropbox etc) would all pose 1/2 tricky math and technical brain teasers to weed lines of students. 1. Immediate screening efficiency for…
So enjoyed our conversation @jaltma, especially drawing on the lessons from past technology cycles to the current AI super-cycle. Thank you, Jack!
New episode of Uncapped with @mamoonha, one of the greatest software investors of the last decade. We talked about the past 25 years of tech innovation cycles, where he sees the biggest opportunities in AI, how he reinvigorated Kleiner Perkins, and his views on life and family.
Why does the current state of site reliability feels like having two heart attacks a week? Why won’t AI-generated code make it into mission-critical systems? My cofounder, Raj, and I had a lovely time speaking with @BogieBalkansky and @sonyatweetybird on @sequoia's Training Data…
Downtime is one of the most expensive and stressful problems in software systems—and the tools we’ve relied on just haven’t kept up especially in the age of AI generated code. Traversal is taking a fundamentally different approach: AI agents that reason through incidents,…
Test, test. Is this thing on? 🎤 Big week at Traversal: we’re officially out of stealth and we’re kicking it off with a feature in @FortuneMagazine! Huge thanks to @agarfinks for sharing our story. But we’re not just telling our story—we’re showing it. See firsthand what we’ve…
Six years after our initial investment in @AppliedInt we're excited double-down on our partnership with @Qasar Younis and Peter Ludwig as vehicle intelligence enters the mainstream. With strong momentum @AppliedInt enters its next chapter—scaling across autonomy, vehicle OS, and…
Developers automated the web. Now everyone can. Announcing Director and our $40M Series 🅱️
The future of enterprise AI is here, and it’s powered by Glean. Congrats @jainarvind and team!
I’m excited to share that today @glean raised $150M in Series F funding at a $7.2B valuation — accelerating our mission to transform how enterprises unlock their collective knowledge through AI. @Glean was founded with a bold vision: to empower every employee with AI solutions…
As someone who worked at Palantir when the FDE model was laughed at and misunderstood, here are three observations of what made it successful: 1. FDE != Solutions Engineering: Solutions Engineering was a subset of what FDEs. When Foundry was emerging, FDEs had to not just…
The hottest job in Silicon Valley right now is the FDE: forward deployed engineer. Don’t believe me? Take a look at the job board of any top AI application company; OpenAI alone has 22 open recs for this type of role. The race for talent is on.
Watch this space 👀
Windsurf CEO Varun Mohan says code generation is just the appetizer. Real engineering is debugging, testing, system design. As AI agents tap logs, databases, and browser context, “every aspect is going to be 10× more effective.” The real disruption is in engineering cognition.
Google’s finally integrating assistant into Maps. It can call restaurants for you and execute + manage reservations. Worked just fine for this one.
TIL that Burma Love's tea leaf salad is a significant dose of caffeine.